Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions of people a day to the city's centre, in New York cost the city 3? over every 5? fare. Such transportation improvements as Wacker Drive in Chicago, which cost $22,000,000 a mile, tax the properties benefited and automatically produce a rise in rents, which becomes capitalized in the form of higher land values. End result: more intensive use, further traffic congestion...
...increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand for the return quarter, but he takes it, and the cabbie is disgusted. Away in a cloud of gear-teeth he goes. The old gentleman turns in a show half-circle...
Until the next war the Ley and sister ships will cruise regularly to the Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords, carry "deserving workers," approved by their employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...
...heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx Club, where swarthy, honey-voiced Maxine Sullivan had been singing the song for months, Loch Lomond had already been swung to a fare-ye-well, and nobody had paid much attention. But Columbia press-agents worked the Detroit incident for all it was worth, delved into musicological tomes, emerged with the pronouncement: "Bach made fancy arrangements of hymn tunes of Luther. . . . Now people make a fuss when Stokowski makes arrangements of tunes...
...whole point of the book is to show that the author is descended from Jupiter." Although Lost Atlantis contains careful expositions of the Atlantean arguments, the main impression it communicates is not that Atlantis ever existed but that Author Bramwell, as a literary sophisticate who has tired of heavier fare, has a tender feeling for the writing of cranks, if only they are cranky enough...